A rainbow which lit up the sky for nearly nine hours is officially recognized by the Guinness World Records for being the world’s longest-lasting one. Authorities from the organization held a ceremony on Saturday in Taiwan to honor the achievement—the first-ever world record the country has received for a natural science-related phenomenon, Taiwan News reports. Related: Watch: Fireball Shooting Across the Sky Captured by Police Dashcam Professors and students at the Chinese Culture University in Taiwan witnessed the rainbow, which lasted for 8 hours and 58 minutes last November. Trending: Disgraced Former Trump Adviser…

He had been monitored by federal and other authorities for months More (PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.) — A Florida teenager accused of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old boy during a fight about his religion during a sleepover had been monitored by federal and other authorities for months, police said. The teen, 17, was jailed in a juvenile detention center after his arraignment earlier this week on first-degree murder and attempted-murder charges, news outlets reported. Authorities haven’t yet said whether he will be charged as an adult. The Associated Press does not…

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is going through some changesNASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt /Seán Doran By Andy Coghlan The biggest planetary storm in the solar system appears to be getting smaller. Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot, a massive anticyclonic storm observed for hundreds of years, is now only big enough to swallow one Earth. At its largest, 150 years ago, it spanned four Earth diameters. A recent NASA study, which combines all consistent observations of the spot going back to the 1870s, suggests that it’s been shrinking since 1878, rallying only temporarily in…

This article originally appeared in the March 12, 2018 issue of SpaceNews magazine. The world’s biggest, best established satellite operators talk of broadband as an enormously lucrative opportunity. But in truth, nothing is causing them more frustration. Demand for ever-faster broadband internet connections is maxing out today’s satellites, setting off an industry-wide stampede toward increasingly powerful high-throughput satellites (HTS). While that might sound like a good thing, the rush to HTS is driving down bandwidth prices so fast that some fairly low-mileage satellites are struggling to keep up. Seasoned operators,…

Asteroid Bennu typically swings by the planet every six years or so, with a short solar orbit of just over 436 days. Until now, the carbon-rich hunk of rock posed no threat to humanity, but a dire warning from NASA suggests that could now change. According to calculations by the US space agency, there is a slim chance, the nearly 500m-wide asteroid could slam into Earth. Although the odds of this terrifying scenario are relatively low, about one in 2,700 or 0.037 percent, Bennu is a potential Earth Impactor listed…

Neil deGrasse Tyson, famed astrophysicist and television host, has confirmed the long held belief Earth is indeed round and not flat. Appearing online in a YouTube video posted on the StarTalk channel, Mr Tyson vented his outrage and debunked the Flat Earth myth. Unamused by his co-host Chuck Nice’s question about the shape of the Earth, the vexed scientist said: “We have video from space of the rotating, spherical Earth. The Earth is round.” The Flat Earth Theory is an old and obviously debunked belief the world is not spherical,…

GETTY NASA space defence: The HAMMER spacecraft could deliver nuclear bombs to rogue asteroids The ever present threat of speeding asteroids from the depths of space weighs heavily on the minds of the word’s greatest scientists. Rogue asteroids have led to global-level extinction events in the past, having wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. According to NASA’s chief asteroid hunter, Paul Chodas, near-Earth objects (NEOs) “continue to pose a hazard” to the planet. At the moment, there are well over 1,800 asteroids out there in space, described…

WASHINGTON — A Soyuz rocket from Arianespace successfully delivered four telecommunications satellites into medium Earth orbit for fleet operator SES. The rocket took off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana at 12:11 p.m. Eastern March 9 after a 33-minute delay caused by high altitude winds. The four 700-kilogram satellites separated from the rocket’s upper stage two hours after liftoff in pairs 20 minutes apart. The launch is Arianespace’s second launch of the year and first since an inertial navigation system with incorrect launch data led an Ariane 5 rocket slightly…

Nasa released the images of the swirling storms after its Juno spacecraft captured the mesmerising sight. The storm is made up of a mixture of liquid hydrogen and helium in the centre with huge jet streams hitting the atmosphere. Juno’s images have revealed what lies beneath the murky clouds of Jupiter – commonly dubbed the King of the Solar System as it is by far the biggest planet in our galactic neighbourhood – for the first time. Aerospace engineering professor Luciano Iess of Sapienza University of Rome, added: “On Jupiter,…

Data collected by NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter indicate that the atmospheric winds of the gas-giant planet run deep into its atmosphere and last longer than similar atmospheric processes found here on Earth.